INSPIRED BY DREAMS TRIUMPHS OF THE BRAIN ASLEEP OVER THE BRAIN AWAKE. Dramatic Achievement* That Owe Their DCIIIK to the Myaterions Working;* of the Mind Under the Snlitle Influence of Slumber. There are numerous authentic cases In which, Inspired by a dream, a per son has achieved in sleep something that he had utterly failed over when awake aud certainly more than one where an artistic triumph has resulted. No doubt, too, there have been ln-f stances of the kind where the mystery of such an achievement has remained an irritating problem, ns very nearly happened In respect to an artist whose pictures sold well and whose genius for color combinations was considered us astonishing as his output. The painter used to tell the creepy story of how, going into his studio aft er breakfast, he would often stand spellbound at the fact that some super natural "double" bad been hard at work upon bis cauvas during the night, more than once obtaining cleverly an effect in scheme or coloring that he had strained after for days in vain. Here was something to make the strongest brain reel. As it continued at intervals after he had tried locking the studio door and placing the key under his pillow, the effect can he better Imagined than de scribed, and it was only a chance acci dent that at length burst the bubble, lie got up one morning to find his dressing gown stroked with a dry car mine pigment, and fragments of the same material lay strewn about his easel below. Impelled by a dream, he had gone down there in the night to paint, trodden upon tlie pigment, and, uutomatonliko, picked up the pieces he fore retiring again. And precisely the same thing is known to have happened to a well known worker in mosaics some years ago. His mind continued to work out schemes after his body had "struck," and lie would proceed to his workroom aud arrange designs, the effect of which simply stupefied him next morning. At least one enduring piece of music owes its inspiration and production to a dream in the same dramatic way. The singular distinction, in fact, is claimed for several. It occurs at the end of a famous Russian opera. For weeks the composer had struggled with his finale and had all but given it up In despair. The spirit of a certain theme danced vaguely through his overworked brain, but always eluded liim when lie went to set it down for the orchestra. One night, as lie lay asleep, It came to liim, grandly definite. He dreamed that it was an accomplished fact on paper. Events showed that lie must have gone down stairs, played it tri umphantly over on his organ several times and then written down tlie chords that hail caused liim so much anxiety. Next morning tlie score sheets were found neatly dotted and the finale a great success; but, although his wife had heard tlie organ going and even remembered the tune played, the com poser himself could only recollect the dream Itself and was absolutely at a loss to account for the position In which lie was found—fast asleep over the keys. The brain had succumbed Immediately the dream inspiration huil taken a practical shape. Equally dramatic, again, is the sto ry often told of a struggling musi cian who had written n song which he could not Induce any music publisher to risk publishing. The fact had prey ed on bis mind. One night lie dreamed that he had written a pathetic letter to a popular singer, inclosed It with his scorned masterpiece, walked all the way to the vocalist's house at Hamp stead and pushed his envelope through the letter slit there. He recollected lit tle of it next morning, not having oc casion to miss his manuscript, and stoutly denied his landlord's assertion that he had left his bedroom and gone for a nocturnal stroll. Shortly after ward. however, lie was astonished at receiving a check and a ticket for a concert, and then, especially when he heard his own song rendered at the concert, it all flashed back to him. He had unconsciously acted upon his dream—owed Ills stroke of luck purely to a somnambulistic inspiration. It goes without saying, too. that the most humorous things arc occasionally done by persons who retire to rest with a fixed intention for the morrow in their minds and are discovered work ing out the scheme in their sleep. * The writer knows a gentleman—nev er suspected of acting upon inspira tions evolved in lils slumber—who had laid in a stock of enamel paints, with which lie intended "to decorate his rooms after u pattern not yet decided upon. Borne fantastic notion presum ably must have presented Itself ns he slept. All unconsciously lie proceeded down stairs in tin? small hours, mixed all the colors together in a bowl and started to daub the doors and walls with considerably more determination than 'AKic. The result was a polychro matic chaos, to say nothing of a bad shock for the gentleman, who sprang out of his dream at the sound of a cry from liis startled wife.—Philadelphia Times. An Austere Philosophy. "Keep working," said Senator Sor ghum earnestly. "Don't be discourag ed by failure, but try, try again. Re member that good old maxim 'Persist ency's a Jewel.' " "Arc you sure it's 'persistency?'" in quired the young man mildly. "Isn't It Von' instead of 'per?' " "Well." lie answered thoughtfully, "as life goes nowadays I suppose there's got to he more or less Von' In It. Hut it isn't considered polite to lay too much stress upon it."—Exchange. _ THE POWER OF BEAUTY. A Hurfrlar XVho Preferred a KIHM to KecplUK the Snaff, "I fancy," said a handsome woman of 50 or more, "that there is as much truth us poetry in what has been said and Is being said about the power of woman's beauty. Of course, It Is sup posed that only poets know anything about the matter, but I can bear testi mony of a different sort, and It Is from my own experience. When I was a gifl of 20, I was really very pretty auil I had no end of gay gallants dancing attendance on me all the time, which was some sign of the truth of my statement, for I was neither very rich nor very bright—just an ordinary, real pretty gill; that was all. But the pow er was there, though I was not con scious of Its strength until after my experience. "I lived In a southern city of 25,000 people, and one night 1 attended a dance a half dozen blocks from my home and did not get back until 1 o'clock in the morning, my escort being the gentleman who is now ray husband. He proposed to me that night, and when I came Into the house I fancy I must have been prettier than I ever was before, for I never was so happy. The house was still, for the only people in it, except two old servants away back in the f., were my father and mother, who had gone to bed hours before. I slipped up stairs to my room as quietly as a mouse and turning up the gas I was confronted by a burglar, who pointed a pistol at me and told me not to make any noise or he would kill me. I didn't faint, because 1 was so happy that it Inspired me, I suppose, and I stood still looking at liim. lie looked at me, too, dressed In my best gown and shining with a lot of jewels, for our family had some line diamonds and other things of ornament that had descended to me, and like most south ern girls I liked to wear them even when It was not In the best taste. " 'I wouldn't hurt as pretty a girl ns you are for the world.' he said with a bow; 'but I've got to have the shiners, so Just take them off and hand them over, while I pick up what I can find lying around loose.' "With trembling fingers I took off my handsome jewels while he gathered tip all he could find on tny dressing case and put them in his pocket, keep lug the pistol pointed at me. He was not a bad looking man, and as I put out my hand to Idui with the Jewelry In it I smiled at hint, as frightened as I was, and asked him if he wouldn't go right away. But he did not take the jewelry and he did not go away. He simply stared at me in undisguised admiration and took out of his pockets the trinkets he had gathered from the dressing case. " 'lf you will excuse me, miss, for impertinence,' he said, 'l'll say. to you that you are the prettiest girl I ever saw In my life, and 1 always did ad mire pretty girls. I hate to rob you like this, and if you will let me kiss you, just ou your cheek where it is pinkest, I'll leave everything else and take only tin' remembrance of that ns a reward for tills night's job.' "This time I did almost faint, but I tried to be strong and succeeded so well that I kept my wits. It was some thing dreadful to be kissed by a bur glar. but he was so respectful and real ly did admire me, and besides 1 was saving several thousand dollars' worth of Jewels, so I didn't say a word, but just turned my cheek toward him. He took off his cap. bent forward, touched me on the cheek with his lips and stood back with his pistol in his hand. " 'Now, If I may trouble you to go to the front door with me,' he said, 'so that if anybody should see mi' coming out it will not cause liny remarks, I will relieve you of my presence, which, I assure you, would never have occur red hail I known as much as I know now.' "I thought I never could do it. but I did. and I stood In the door till lie dis appeared around the corner; then I col lapsed utterly, and the night watch man found me there 15 or 20 minutes afterward and roused the house. By the time I knew enough to tell any tiling the burglar was far, far away. The slory got into tlje papers, of course, and in a week or two 1 received a note of regret from my burglar, postmarked Cincinnati, which was the only clew we ever linil of hlni. But the kissing part of the story was not printed. I kept that to myself, anil the first per son to whom I told it was my husband, and lie was gallant enough to say that the burglar had got the better part of the bargain."—New York Sun. C'nro of n l.nwn MOMTP. One of the most necessary and yet one of the most abused of all imple ments Is tin* lnwu mower. To sharpen the knives is not a dillleult matter. To do it remove the wheels and slip the cogwheel off the end of the shaft. A little clutch will be found in a slot in tlie shaft at e\|rli end. Simply reverse the positions of cogwheels and clutches from one end of the shaft to the other, so that the reel can be run backward; then replace the outer wheels and fas ten them In place with either the nnts or cotters. With the oil can run a little oil along the edge of the lower knife. Upon this oil sprinkle medium coarse emery powder. Now turn the machine upside down and push It along the lawn rapidly, the reel turning back ward causing the emery to grind all the knives. The wheels may then be taken off and the cogs and clutches re versed, the emery carefully wiped off. the knives adjusted, the machine oiled, and it will be ready for use.—Woman's llome Companion. Nice fiml Qult. Tommy—Can we play at keeping shop in heie, mamma? Mamma (who has a headache)— Yes, but you must be very, very quiet. Tommy—All right; we'll pretend we don't advertise. To Say Nothing of Gfttlng; Married. "Sometimes," said Mr. Blykius, "I'm surprised at my own courage." "Why, you never went to war," an swered his wife. "There are other risks than those of the battlefield. Every time I pick up a paper I find an article on 'the dangers to our political system,' Mangers to public morals,' Manger of eating,' 'dan gers that lurk In the atmosphere' and so on without end. I tell you It takes a mighty nervy man to go on eating and breathing."—Washington Star. Pntnful. The Bug—Get off my corn!— New York Journal. lie WHS Better Off. "When 1 rejected you the other day," she began with affected sweet confu sion, "I did not"— •'You did not know I was wealthy," he Interrupted coldly. "Not at all. I knew you were well off. but"— "I didn't know when I was or I shouldn't have proposed to you." Her confusion then was not affected, neither was it sweet.—Philadelphia Press. "Rppuniie She Loved film." "Will you always love me like you do now?" he asked the Boston girl. At this juncture, dear reader, conies in tln remarkable feature of the affair. She did not correct his grammar. She merely said " 'M!" All of foregoing goes to show that love is a leveler beside whom a steam shovel looks like 30 denarii.—ln dianapolis Press. HU Ambition In Life. "That boy seems to have no ambi tion in life." "There's where you do hirn an In justice. Il wants to lie the husband of an actress, and no one has worked more industriously than lie to acquire the necessary liking for fur lined coats, champagne and diamonds."—Chicago Post. Modent, a* Ho Always In. The pirate pauses as lie is about to pass finally from the scene. "But who among you will persons swear like when 1 am gone?" he asks sadly. Nobody answers, but the goldfish Is seen to blush modestly and east down his eyes.—Detroit Journal. Ilorrlblle Dictn. Towne—Hicult has conceived a hor rible Idea. Browne—What Is It, an Infernal ma chine? Towne—lt's infernal, sure enough. He proposes to set some of Brown ing's poems to Wagner's music.—Phil adelphia Press. Comforting deflection. "Well, there's one tiling certain," mused Uncle Allen Sparks, wiio was watching a boy dangling over the pier and holding a fishing pole in both hands. "The capitalists can't organize any happiness trust."—Chicago Trib une. Why She Snld It. Bobbs—My wife told me last night that 1 was the smartest man on earth. Dobbs—Huh! She was talking through her hat. Bobbs -Oh, no. She was talking for her hat.—Baltimore American. Ilcnrd In the Hentanrant. Ivnieker—Jones Is a self made man. He wasn't born with a silver v Npoon In his moutli. Boeker— Maybe that's why lie has his knife In it now.—Brooklyn Life. When He I'alnted It. Auctioneer—Lot 52. A genuine Tur ner. Painted during the artist's life time. What offers, gentlemen?— Punch. A Candidate From Pohlck. I'm feclin -patriotic, nn I want it understood That I am willin to be active to promote my country's Rood. They say they want a president who never had a taint Of politics about him, who has wakened no com plaint because he 'oociatod with a syndicate or trust An aech wicked institutions of our social upper crust. I talked to 'Mandy 'bout it. She advised me fair an straight; So start your print in presses. lam now a candi date. She took mo fairly by surprise when, after I'd ex plained, She showed enthusiasm which could scarcely be restrained. Says she: "If they are loukln with an ardor BO in tense For a man to run for office who has no expert* Who is innocent an guileless as a robin rapt in song An is ready fur to buy the first gold brick that coines along, Why, git your speeches ready jes' as speedy as There*ain't no doubt 'bout it. You're the long expected man." Fling nut your starry banners! Start your torch lights on parade! Fur 'Mandy says it's all O. K. You needn't be afraitl. There is eastern aspirations, there is booms out in the west, But I'm the only feller that kin truly meet the test. Of course I dpn't know what it is a president must do. But I'm willin fur to learn it, if it takes a week or two. So gather round, good people—l'm a prize—an grab me quick! You want to get a candidate from Pohick on tha crick. _ —Lewiston Journal, A KNOWING FROG. Th, Novel Manner In Which He 9c cnrcH Mcnl of rile. "One of the most knowing little ani mal (icts I ever had is a frog about half grown," said a well known artist the other day to a reporter. "I made the jumper's first acquaintance one morning two weeks ago, when he hop ped from the garden through an open French window Into my studio, where his frequent dally visits afford me much amusement during Idle moments. He Is so tnme that he will take worms from my fingers and perch upon my hand like a bird and sing and croak as long us I choose to hold him. "As an illustration of the little fel low's cunning, I wns one morning feed ing my favorite eat with a saucer of bread and milk, all of which pussy did not eat. The food that the eat left soon attracted quite a number of files. The observant frog noticed this, and, hopping Into the saucer, he rolled over and over until he wns fairly covered with a batter of bread and milk, hav ing done which be lay perfectly mo tionless and awaited developments. The files, enticed by the prospect of n good meal, soon began to circle around the scheming batraehian, and when one passed within two Inches or so of his nose Ills tongue darted out and the fly disappeared. The plan worked so well that the frog makes a regular business of rolling himself In the cat's left over dinner. "One day I wanted to paint him in a picture and tried to take a profile view. Hut he evidently had a dislike to being sketched, for whenever I placed him in the right position he would lioi) around so as to face me and then go on my drawing paper. Then I would put him on a plate with some water so that M might he more comfortable. This plan answered very well as far as keeping him off the pa per went, but when 1 turned the plate so as to get a side view be hobbled around and would face me. Then I tried edging around the table, but with the snme result, so that I wns obliged to hold him sideways while I drew him. Hut whenever I raised my head to look at him he rftlsed Ills, too, and lowered It again when 1 began to paint, and so we went on nodding at 'oneh other like two Chinese mandarins." A Schpnir Tlint Failed. With a market basket filled with pieces of bank and treasury notes an old woman, who said she lived in Cani den, appeared at the subtreasury and stnted that wanted the bits of mon ey redeemed, says the Philadelphia Record. It required only n hasty ex amination for the officials to determine that the pieces of notes were all from the edges and cornet's of bills of va rious denominations. The woman was asked how she be came possessed of the pieces, which Information she failed to give. Then she was bluntly told that the govern ment would allow her nothing for the remnants of money, because It was plainly evident that the pieces were all clipped from whole notes. This the woman dented, yet she was obliged to go away without receiving passable cash for her offering. The ofilcinls found that, though there were corners and edges from S2O, .$lO, $."), $2 and $1 notes, there wns not a piece of a center In the entire collec tion, so that It would In* impossible to make even one bill by pasting pieces together. There were enough hits, however, to equal a hundred notes in size. Judging from the paper and style of notes, it had required about 20 years to collect the pieces. The Key to Wn.hlnKliiii Soelety. The words army and navy are an open sesame to the best elements of social life everywhere in our country, and nmong the lenders of Washington society are found many whose hus bands are in one or the other. Wash ington is the natural rallying point of the army, and even after the nctive professional life is ended they find there the plensantest resting place. Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Logan have chosen their homes there and hold sway over n large circle of friends. The widows of other promi nent officers drift to Washington from time to time, and in the Inner circle of Washington's plensantest social life Admiral Dewey has found In General Hazen's widow n gracious woman to hold sway over himself and his home. At the last New Year's ptlon Mrs. Custer, known for her own charming personality as well as because of her gallant husband's fame, stood beside Mrs. Miles and received with lier dur ing the afternoon.—Mary Hrecklnridge lllnes In Woman's Home Companion. A Vacant Garter. According to the London Chronicle, there is now a Garter vacant, and if a plebiscite decided on whom It should be bestowed tlierc is not a doubt but that K. G. would be placed after the name of the Held marshal commanding In South Africa, who most certainly merits the .distinction quite as much as Lord Elgin, 011 whom It was so proper ly conferred by Lord Salisbury. In the last two centuries the Garter has only been tbrlee given for military services —to Marlborough, Wellington and Lord Anglesey—and. strange to say, no naval commander appears to have hud It, not even Nelson. Special Delivery teller.. During the past year the government sold $r>,200,000 worth of special deliv ery stamps, and special delivery mes senger boj-R traveled 2,525,000 miles, or as far as 1,100 times aroung the world. —lowa State Register. NUN'S TRAGIC DEATH. Emld Her Life bj- Jumping Into the Seu. New York. Aug. 27.—A chapter of tragic ami pathetic features was the voy age of L'Aquitaine, the French liner, from N*w York to Havre and back again to New York. The steamship arrived here on her return trip , with 1,040 pas sengers One of the second cabin passengers who boarded the vessel nt Havre wns a beautiful but sad faced English woman. Miss Margaret Minnehnn. She jumped overboard early last Thursday. The body was recovered with a little life still in it, but Miss Minnehnn died in the ship surgeon's arms. Miss Minnehnn was 3(1 years old. She was not in good health when she went on board and became the patient of Dr. Potel, I/Aquitaine's surgeon. She had a hallucination that she was being perse cuted. The woman, who was tall and of fine figure, left her room on the star board side of tile promenade deek at 0 a. in. on Thursday. She was fully dress ed and wore a large hat. She carried a satchel. To a fellow passenger the wo man remarked: "Watch and you will see something sensational today." Sin- handed a dollar to n steward and said in French: "This is for you. Y'ou have been very attentive." Crossing the promenade deck, Miss Minnehnn slung the satchel overboard amidships. She quickly climbed the rail and followed the satchel, crossing her self as she plunged headlong. Captain Simon put the vessel about, and Second Lieutenant Bourdenux with six sailors quickly dropped into a life boat. They picked up the woman, who was unconscious, and raised her in a sling to tlie deck. Dr. Potel tried to re store her. but Miss Minnehnn died as ho was treating her. One of tlie saloon passengers said that the woman had confided to a fellow trav eler that sin* had been a nun in Eng land, but had fallen in love with n young man and renounced the veil to marry him. Her lover was a false wooer, and she had lied from her home to begin again a life of consecration. WARSHIP AS COLLECTOR. I'nitcd Stntod Fiforce* ll* Demand AuuiiiMt Morocco. Tangier, Morocco, Aug. 27.—A United States warship has arrived here to sup port tlie claim arising out of tlie murder Inst June of Marcos Essagin, a natural ized American citizen who was the man ager of the Fez branch of the French firm of Bratinsweig & Co. Essagin, while riding on horseback through a narrow street in Tangier, jolt ed against tlie mule of a Morocco reli gious fanatic, and a dispute ensued, the crowd siding with tlie priest. In self de fense Essagin drew Ids revolver and fired, wounding a native. This was the signal for a general attack upon tlie American, who received dozens of knife wounds and whose body was burned, ac cording to some accounts, before life was extinct. BASEBALL SCORES. llcMiilt* of Ye*terduy'a Canine* In the Different League*. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At. St. Louis — r. h. B. fit. Louis.... 10003200 *—(i 14 1 .Chicago 000002 1 0 0— 3 7 3 Batteries—Jones and Crigur; Callahan and Chance. At Cincinnati— r. h. E. Cincinnati... 1 0000000 *— 1 3 0 Pittsburg — ooooooooo—o 6 0 Batteries—ltahn and Kahoe; Phillips and Sckri- STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C. Brooklyn... 58 37 .011 Chicago 48 51 .185 Pittsburg... 55 47 .53!) Cincinnati.. 48 53 .475 Pliilttdel'a.. 50 48 .510 St. Louis... 40 51 .471 Boston 4!) 4!) .600 New York.. 3D 57 .400 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Buffalo—BufTtilo, 7; Cleveland, 3. At Milwaukee—Milwaukee, 7; Minneapolis, 8. EASTERN LEAGUE. At Rochester—Rochester, 4; Toronto, 3. * At Syracuse--Syracuse, 4; Montreal, 1. At Providence —Providence, 7; Hurtford, 2. 1 outbful litccii